First edition, and an exceptional presentation copy, inscribed by Salinger on the front free endpaper, “Mr Mel Manchester On Saturday, the Seventh of October Nineteen Hundred and Sixty-one at three o’clock in the afternoon First Christian church, Portland, Oregon is marrying one of the excellent people in this world, one of the good and true. Thinking of you, Mary Jane, Love to you. All happiness, Jerry Salinger Cornish, N.H. Sept. 30, 1961″. The recipient was the actress and dancer Mary Jane Kersey.
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